A number of rightwing British activists have publicly praised mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik – one describing him as a "role model" – since the Norwegian extremist was sentenced.

Members of the English Defence League (EDL) and the National Front have voiced support for the 33-year-old, who was declared sane and convicted by an Oslo court nine days ago after killing 77 people in two attacks last year.

Kickboxer Darren Clifft from Walsall tried to garner support for a petition to free Breivik last week. The 23-year-old National Front supporter, who posts as "Daz MarxistHunter", left a message on Facebook stating: "[Breivik] is truly inspirational. He sacrificed his life so Europe might be free again from the clutches of Islam and cultural Marxism, multiculturalism and political correctness. I see him as my role model, what every European man needs to be in order for Europe to survive."

Another Breivik admirer, Nick Greger – who, along with EDL founder member Paul Ray, runs Order 777, which claims to bring together Christian resistance movements – wrote on Facebook that the Norwegian deserved a medal "for the groundbreaking performance to blow up his Marxist traitor government building".

Breivik murdered teenagers on a Labor party summer camp, and the government in Norway is currently Labor as well. Not communist, not Marxist, quite a few steps to the right of those ideas. Breivik didn't sacrifice HIS life as much as he sacrificed the lives of 77 innocent people who had done nothing to him personally.

We in the West have been "in the clutches of Islam and multiculturalism" since we started using Arab figures (which actually come from India, so even more multi-culture), and since we adopted the Middle-Eastern religion of Judeo-Christianity, in other words several centuries. But we seem to still do fairly OK, after all this time.

I would like to point out, however, that while gutter racism is as prevalent here as it is anywhere else, and has been for a long time, all this talk of saving us from Marxists is, like every other political idea in the last 40 years, imported from across the Atlantic. There has always been a tendency (well, since the 1920s, anyway) in Britain to want to produce crap imitations of anything American, and that goes for extreme politics as much as it does for nearly every other walk of life.

There has always been a tendency (well, since the 1920s, anyway) in Britain to want to produce crap imitations of anything American, and that goes for extreme politics as much as it does for nearly every other walk of life.

With some prominent exceptions. While the Duke of Windsor shared that affection for becoming a crap imitation of anything American (via the strange woman on the left), his extreme politics were slightly more European in origin (via the horrible POS on the right).

"Another Breivik admirer, Nick Greger – who, along with EDL founder member Paul Ray, runs Order 777, which claims to bring together Christian resistance movements – wrote on Facebook that the Norwegian deserved a medal...."

I agree. So long as the medal is a good conductor, hitched up to 2,000 volts, and Breivik is well grounded.

"[Breivik] is truly inspirational. He sacrificed his life so Europe might be free again from the clutches of Islam and cultural Marxism, multiculturalism and political correctness.

No, he sacrificed about twenty one years of his own time.

He sacrificed the lives of seventy seven OTHER people, and hurt--some seriously--about 209 more. He'd been planning it for about a decade. And when he gets out of prison in 21 years, those people are still going to be dead. He could easily go on another twenty or thirty years after that, and those people are still going to be dead. And when they lay him in the ground, his victims will still be dead. 77 dead, 77 families sundered, for no good reason other than one moron's hatred of the army of strawmen that existed only in his head.

The youngest of his victims was 14 years old. Some of them tried to play dead in hopes that he'd go on and leave them alone; he came back and shot them anyway, just to be sure. A few of them begged for their lives, including an 11 year old boy who had just watched his father die in front of him--and he actually relented, because even HE understood at some level that what he was doing was wrong. And the man whose "courage" you're gushing over dropped his weapons and surrendered when the cops surrounded him, because he was shit-scared he was going to die--and really, he should have.

Breivik is neither a hero nor a martyr nor someone worthy of admiration or emulation, any more than someone who rapes and kills children or the elderly is. If you find anything admirable in this man, then you are an even bigger, more monstrous piece of despicable, psychopathic monkey shit than he is--because unlike you, he actually had the awful, hateful courage, the drive, to actually carry through on his loathsome murder fantasy, instead of merely watching from the sidelines and playing cheerleader when someone with more guts than him does it. In a sane, just universe, this would never have happened--but in a world only very slightly less unjust than this one, you would be shunned by anyone with a soul for the rest of your days for daring to say this in public. You're an even bigger dismal failure as a human being than he is.